Fear and foot dragging in Geneva

Article Abstract:

Negotiations for the Uruguay Round of Gatt, which have been taking place at Gatt headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland since 1992, have bogged down. The basic difficulty is that countries are eager to gain larger markets for their own products while being just as eager to keep foreign competitors out of their domestic markets. China's reluctance to open its markets enough to satisfy the US, and the opposition of India's farmers to protecting intellectual property rights, are prime illustrations of these contradictory tendencies. A new agreement is not likely in the short term.

International aspects, Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, International trade, Free trade

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Unleashing the lion's pen: wind of liberalisation spawns literary upsurge in the republic

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Gopal Baratham's sexually explicit novel 'Sayang' has triggered a controversy in the usually repressive Singaporean society. His work signals a loosening of government censorship on artistic works and has stimulated an otherwise staid and boring artistic community. The growing number of English users and a younger Singapore populace have also helped in widening the scope of English language literature in the republic. Although the approaches vary, most of the new titles have been selling in the Singaporean market.

Publishing industry, Evaluation, Singapore, Literature, Literature publishing

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Memory and apathy

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Japan's neighbors throughout Asia exhibit deep ambivalence toward their former conqueror. Only Korea seems primarily negative, but all harbor memories of the imperial half-century before the end of World War II. The huge population age 20 and under, however, regards that as pure history, associating Japan more with exciting culture and miraculous electronics. Even those who remember and are willing to forgive past abuses claim to find the Japanese mindset and society impenetrable.

Japan, History, Cover Story, International relations, Asia, Imperialism, World War I, 1914-1918, Japanese history, Reparations, War reparations

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